“that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel;”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Proverbs 1 contains 33 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.